Fedoroff,whose father was a Russian immigrant to the US and her mother a first generation immigrant,was born in Cleveland,Ohio. Her first language was Russian.[5] When she was nine years old her family moved to Fayetteville,New York,a suburb of the city of Syracuse.
Fedoroff talks about the importance and function of jumping genes.
After graduating from Rockefeller University in 1972[9] she joined the faculty of the University of California,Los Angeles,where she did research into nuclear RNA.[10] She moved in 1978[9] to the Carnegie Institution for Science in Baltimore,Maryland,worked on developmental biology at the Department of Embryology,where she pioneered DNA sequencing and worked out the nucleotide sequence of the first complete gene.[10] In 1978,she also joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University Biology Department,where she worked on the molecular characterization of maize transposable elements or jumping genes,for which Barbara McClintock was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1983.[10]
Fedoroff has three children and seven grandchildren. She enjoys music,theatre and singing.[3][5] Fedoroff was a single mother,and although she was studying and trying to make a living,she was able to raise two of her three children alone.[17]
12345Department Of State. The Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs (2007-07-26). "Fedoroff, Nina V."2001-2009.state.gov. Retrieved 2022-05-04.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
